I saw somebody do this awhile back and decided to try it for myself. Fun stuff!

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“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.”

That is far from being the worst reproduction of a 78 I have ever heard! It could easily be a respectable table gramophone playing with a soft-tone needle and the doors shut.

The writer Patrick O'Brian, in his 1952 novel Testimonies, describes what must be the ultimate in audio-mechanical economy: playing a record with one's fingernail. Unfortunately I cannot put this to the test, since I could not bear to let my nails grow long enough.

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